Hemming attachment for sewing-machines.



L. G. NEFF & J. J. TAYLOR.

HEMMING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.26, 191

1,155,159. Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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V positionthe tuck before it enters the passage, means-for hemming the lower edge of the fabric, and means for placing a strip of I appearance material.

The device comprehends' broadly means;

for performing in one operation work which has heretofore required two "operations. Heretofore the rufiled part of the cloth was placed on the back or under side of the flap and both were turned by hand and sewed down on ,an ordinary machine. In the presentinvention the ruflie part of the fabric'is placed on to the hem and thus located between the flap and the tuck giving a neat and covering the selvage of the e claim: v 1"." A hemming attachment for sewing ma'f chlnes comprising a guide having an inclosed winding passage for guiding a tucked V fabric means for verticallypositioning the tu'ckbefore it enters the passage, means for hemming the lower edge of the fabric, and

means for placing a strip of fabric on to the hem;

2. hemming attachment for sewing machines, comprising guide having an in- I closed winding 'passagefor guiding a tucked fabric 111- a vertical and horizontal path, a vertical plate extending forwardly from the.

vertical pe'rtion ofthe gnideto vertically fabric on to the hem;

3SA-hemmin'g attachment for sewing machines, comprising a vertically disposed member provided with a horizontal portion for guiding the tucked portion of afabric in a vertical horizontal path, a looped Copies of this patent may be obtained for 3 member located adjacent to thetuck member for hemming the fiapportion of the fabric, and side wings arranged above the loop for placing'a strip of fabric on to the hem.

A hemming attachment for sewing machines, comprising a vertically disposed member provided with a horizontal portion for guiding the tucked portion of a fabric in a vertical and. horizontal path, a looped member located adjacent to the tuck member for hemming the flap portion of the fabric, said loop member having an upwardly projecting plate forming the forward portion of the tuck 'me1nber,$and side wings arranged above the loop for placing a strip-of fabric on to the. hem.

5. A hemming attachment for sewing machines, comprising a vertically disposed member providec'l'with a-horiz'ontal portion for guiding thetucked portion of a" fabric in a vertical and horizontal path, a looped member located adjacent to the tuck member for hemming the flap portion of the fabric,. nidlo0p member having an upwardly projecting plate forming the forward portion of the tuck member, side wings arranged above the loop for placing a strip 7 of fabric on to the hem, and means coa'cting with the lower portion of the plate forguid ing the fabric into the tuck guide l y In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in thepre'sence of two subscribing witnesses. V r

" I LAMBERT G. .NEFF.

i JO E J- YLOR.- VVitnesses for Lambert G. Neff: WILL A v I L R,

HAZE V MoELRoY.

Witnesses for Joseph J, Taylor i P M. D.DI1 \II0K, I

' DAISY BEsn'r'r.

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